Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

AEI Fund Management

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 9, 2018

Filed

Sep 28, 2018

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for AEI Fund Management →

AEI Fund Management, Inc. notified Montana residents that an employee's email account was compromised via phishing on July 5, 2018. The attacker accessed the account and downloaded documents containing investor PII, including SSNs, driver's license numbers, and financial account information. AEI engaged forensic investigators, notified the FBI, and offered 24 months of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 81 days

Jul 5, 2018

Begins

Jul 9, 2018

Discovered

Sep 28, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_49d352f25b2ff5642018-09-27 · +1dVerified

Name: AEI Fund Management
norm: aei fund management

Name: AEI Fund Management
norm: aei fund management
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 9, 2018
Breach occurred: Jul 5, 2018
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 6, 2018
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to the FBI
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Retained the services of an IT security forensics firm to assist with the investigation
Reported the incident to the FBI
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 24 months at no cost to you
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(81 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 27 · first

Montana State AG+1d · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/AEI-Fund-Management.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 28, 2018
Raw hash: 9838efacbcd5024cb239087ca8cc730242d6e92b720fb7a8e5ea5e40d5b24600

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAEI Fund Management

Victim entityAEI Fund Management

Incidentdiscovered Jul 9, 2018

Stated responseRetained the services of an IT security forensics firm to assist with the investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov